Abstract: "Women Also Know Stuff. Does that sound obvious' It's not, alas." In early 2016 a group of women political scientists announced in The Washington Post their reasons for forming a group called Women Also Know Stuff. The US presidential election dramatically exposed the ongoing imbalance in the consultation and citation of women experts in political discussion.1 The new group was responding directly to media bias, but it has long been clear that bias—not only against women but against people of color, LGBTQ scholars, and other groups—is persistent in academia. The historical profession is no exception.In the last two decades, women have earned 42 percent of all history PhDs and, according to recently collected data ... Read More PubDate: 2020-06-11T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Soul Sisters to the front(lines) of struggle. Black women intellectuals, artists, educators, organizers, and fashionistas at the center of political culture. Black Militant, Revolutionary, African, Pan-African, Third World, (African)Every Woman on the (battle)fields of history. These expressions and their syntactic strikeouts stylistically proclaim: For too long, the historical images and historiography conjured by the words black power have been traditionally dominated by either black men as historical actors or analyses of hegemonic patriarchal power. Appreciatively, neither the "traditional" nor "hegemonic" prevail in these deeply researched books by Tanisha C. Ford, Robyn C. Spencer, and Ashley D. Farmer. In ... Read More PubDate: 2020-06-11T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Last year, the historian Jill Lepore gave an interview in which she lamented the "retreat of humanists from public life" and claimed that "the academy is largely itself responsible for its own peril."1 A number of historians on Twitter immediately struck back, including Carole Emberton ("Everywhere I look there are humanists of all stripes—writers, artists, academics—engaging with public life in a variety of forms") and Tom Sugrue ("it's a veritable golden age for historians engaging the wide public"). Lawrence Glickman added that it was absurd to blame the academy for its own marginalization, considering the effects of the loss of state funding and of corporatization in higher education. And Holly Genovese even ... Read More PubDate: 2020-06-11T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: These four rich texts shine their bright lights on women and their transnational feminist activist projects spanning the period from the late nineteenth century into the first decade of the twenty-first century. The women, their projects, and their organizations that are the subjects of these studies, as well as the authors who researched and analyzed these endeavors, crossed national, institutional, ideological, disciplinary, and methodological borders, literally and figuratively, in pursuit of feminist, anti-imperialist, antiracist, and humanitarian goals. Each of these thoroughly documented studies, drawing on multinational archival sources and, in all cases but one, on multiple language sources, provide models ... Read More PubDate: 2020-06-11T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: On May 15, 1930, the Indian nationalist leader Rukmini Lakshmipathi picked up a handful of salt on Vedaranyam Beach in Madras Presidency, south India, and was arrested for treason against the British Empire. The police marched Lakshmipathi to Vellore prison with scores of other nonviolent protesters who were organizing to gain independence from British rule in India. Lakshmipathi was the first woman to be arrested in this round of civil disobedience against the British Raj, but she was not alone. Women nationalists took on leading roles in the anticolonial movement and led marches and demonstrations all over the subcontinent.While the public life of these women leaders has been studied, less is known about their ... Read More PubDate: 2020-06-11T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: "When I am dead," said the Lady to the Ayah, "will you go with my little girl to Europe, and take care of her at sea'" The Ayah went home with the little Bebee, and took so much care of her, that the Saheb gave her a very handsome present when she returned, and allowed her to continue with her old woman in her pleasant house in the compound. Moreover, he has taken her son into his service as a kidmutgar [table-servant].—The Ayah and the Lady, Mary Sherwood, 18132In British cultural imaginings, ayahs (nursemaids) sailing to Britain emerge as empowered and beloved Indian women, who were generously compensated with "handsome present[s]" and "pleasant house[s]." Imperial authors like Sherwood, quoted above ... Read More PubDate: 2020-06-11T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Justice Chapman began the September 1844 Supreme Court sitting in the colony of New Zealand with some degree of concern. A crime had been committed, as The New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator reported he said, "which by common consent of mankind as well as by the law of England, is held in especial abhorrence."1 That is, "the crime of violating the person of a woman."2 He explained to the courtroom audience that although it was a detestable crime, it was vital that they approach their investigation with only "the most cautious spirit."3 In the context of Aotearoa's colonial Supreme Court trials, judges frequently used their positions to offer instructions like these, providing guidelines to juries and ... Read More PubDate: 2020-06-11T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: This issue showcases the work of four young scholars of empire. Articles by Rochisha Narayan, Satyasikha Chakraborty, Caitlin Cunningham, and Archana Venkatesh explore the strategic alliances and tacit bargains forged in colonial South Asia and New Zealand (Aotearoa) between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. While imperial ideology primarily served the interests of white European rule, it developed in a matrix nourished by liberal and patriarchal ideals, along with family metaphors of domination. This facilitated collusions of class, caste, and gender in a world structured by racial hierarchy. For example, some "imperial alliances" benefited upper-caste women and men to the detriment of their lower-caste ... Read More PubDate: 2020-06-11T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: In 1791, Jonathan Duncan, an official of the East India Company (hereafter, the Company) and Resident (or political agent of the Company) at the north Indian principality of Banaras, reported to his seniors in Calcutta that he recently had resolved a dispute between the Mughal prince Khurram Bakht and his widowed mother, Princess Qutlugh Begam. Qutlugh Begam was the daughter of Ladli Begam Sahiba, the sister of the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II (r. 1759–1806), and the wife of Shah Alam II's eldest son, Jahandar Shah. Qutlugh Begam and Khurram Bakht were recent arrivals to the city of Banaras after fleeing from the Mughal center in Delhi with the rest of Jahandar Shah's large household in 1787.1 According to Duncan ... Read More PubDate: 2020-06-11T00:00:00-05:00
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